Senior Developer Contracts in Scotland

Senior Developer
UK > Scotland

The median Senior Developer daily rate in Scotland is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 120 127
Rank change year-on-year +23 +7 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Developer 30 48 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.40% 1.78% 1.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.87% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 39 25
10th Percentile £325 £423 £400
25th Percentile £413 £496 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +38.89% -
75th Percentile £575 £713 £538
90th Percentile £580 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Scotland with a recognized job title 2,026 2,569 3,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.50% 95.29% 95.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 1,786 2,312
10th Percentile £200 £224 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £557 £550 £550
90th Percentile £637 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 45 50
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.48 £17.15
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.25 £18.43
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +37.36%
75th Percentile £58.13 £58.75 £48.56
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.88 £55.86
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Senior Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings that featured Senior Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Developer in Scotland

Senior Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Senior Developer in Scotland

Senior Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Developer in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Developer in Scotland

Senior Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Developer in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Developer in Scotland

Senior Developer
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Developer within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +8 14 £480 -36.00% 9
Edinburgh +25 12 £475 -17.39% 12
West Lothian - 4 - -
Senior Developer
UK

Senior Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Senior Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Scotland region featuring Senior Developer in the job title.

1 15 (50.00%) Java
2 14 (46.67%) Spring
2 14 (46.67%) Spring Boot
3 13 (43.33%) React
4 12 (40.00%) Agile
4 12 (40.00%) SQL
5 9 (30.00%) Oracle
5 9 (30.00%) RESTful
5 9 (30.00%) AWS
5 9 (30.00%) Microservices
6 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
6 8 (26.67%) Azure
6 8 (26.67%) .NET
7 7 (23.33%) REST
7 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
7 7 (23.33%) User Experience
8 6 (20.00%) DevOps
8 6 (20.00%) Cloud Native
8 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (20.00%) Code Quality
8 6 (20.00%) Product Ownership
8 6 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
8 6 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
8 6 (20.00%) Oracle Database
8 6 (20.00%) Wiki
9 5 (16.67%) Git
9 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (13.33%) Kafka
10 4 (13.33%) Maven
10 4 (13.33%) JUnit

Senior Developer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (6.67%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (3.33%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) AWS
2 8 (26.67%) Azure
3 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (6.67%) Metadata
2 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Git
2 4 (13.33%) JUnit
2 4 (13.33%) Maven
3 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.00%) JIRA
3 3 (10.00%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (6.67%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.67%) IntelliJ
4 2 (6.67%) Postman
4 2 (6.67%) Subversion
General
1 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
2 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Banking
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (46.67%) Spring
1 14 (46.67%) Spring Boot
2 13 (43.33%) React
3 9 (30.00%) RESTful
4 8 (26.67%) .NET
5 7 (23.33%) REST
6 4 (13.33%) Kafka
7 3 (10.00%) Spring Batch
7 3 (10.00%) Web Services
8 2 (6.67%) Apache Camel
8 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET
8 2 (6.67%) ASP.NET Core
8 2 (6.67%) J2EE
8 2 (6.67%) JSON
8 2 (6.67%) XML
9 1 (3.33%) CSS
9 1 (3.33%) HTML
9 1 (3.33%) Node.js
9 1 (3.33%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 6 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
1 6 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 6 (20.00%) Wiki
2 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) Agile
2 9 (30.00%) Microservices
3 7 (23.33%) User Experience
4 6 (20.00%) Code Quality
4 6 (20.00%) DevOps
4 6 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (13.33%) Clean Code
6 4 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
7 3 (10.00%) MVC
7 3 (10.00%) Scrum
8 2 (6.67%) CI/CD
8 2 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (6.67%) Data Protection
8 2 (6.67%) End-to-End Testing
8 2 (6.67%) SDLC
8 2 (6.67%) TDD
8 2 (6.67%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) Java
2 12 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (6.67%) C#
4 2 (6.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.33%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) IBM